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Thursday, March 2, 2017

One of the most amusing groups of anti-Confederate heritage reactionaries are those who claim to have loved the flag at an earlier age, and then later had some sort of "moral intervention" like Saul on the road to Damascus.

Actually, I don't really find them amusing so much as I find their attempts at attacking those who honor Confederate heritage or the symbols of that heritage largely pathetic. The only thing I find amusing is the ease at which their hollow, virtue signaling arguments can be torn apart with good ole Southern Fried Common Sense.

Today's example of the subspecies regressive cuckus comes from a really strange and quizzical article in the Thursday, March 2nd edition of the Charlotte News and Observer written by one Frank Hyman.

Well anyhow, Mr. Hyman wrote an article detailing a mixture of fake historical memory and modern Leftist ideology to produce one of the biggest piles of common sense draining propaganda I have read in some time.

Anyhow, you will see for yourselves, and as usual this blogger will offer a point-by-point rebuttal in red detailing why each argument presented is an epic fail.

So sit back and enjoy.

The Confederacy was a con job on whites. And still is.

By Frank Hyman

I’ve lived 55 years in the South, and I grew up liking the
Confederate flag. Well what do you know, buttercup; so did I. I haven’t flown one for many decades, but for a reason
that might surprise you. Humm, I wonder what that might be?

I know the South well. We lived wherever
the Marine Corps stationed my father: Georgia, Virginia, the Carolinas.
I thank your father for his service to this country, as I do all US Military personnel. As a child, my favorite uncle wasn’t in the military, but he did pack a
.45 caliber Thompson submachinesub-machine (corrected your misspelling here) gun in his trunk. He was a leader in
the Ku Klux Klan. Yikes! Despite my role models, as a kid I was an inept
racist. I got in trouble once in the first grade for calling a classmate
the N-word. But he was Hispanic. So you were not only a racist piece of trash as a kid, but you were also a dumbfuck too? Interesting.

As I grew up and acquired the
strange sensation called empathy (strange for boys anyway), Uh, how so? I mean I was unaware that the gender we share (thankfully the ONLY thing we share apparently) made the concept of having empathy strange. I think maybe you are projecting just a little bit. I learned
that for black folks the flutter of that flag felt like a poke in the
eye with a sharp stick. Funny, in the last 26 years I have learned something of the opposite: that while some feel that flag is offensive for various reasons, others have no problem with it -- and even in some cases embrace it as a part of their own heritage same as me. And I have the proofs to back that claim up: HERE. HERE. HERE. HERE. HERE. Oh and HERE. And those are just recent examples. And for the most prideful flag waivers, clearly
that response was the point. Considering that you admit to having been a white supremacist piece of trash, no doubt you hung out with like-minded white trash and presumed they were representative of the wider world. That's what usually happens when you live with your head up your ass and never go outside your comfort zone after all. I mean, come on. It’s a battle flag. Well it is more than just a battle flag, it is a living symbol of Southern cultural heritage unique to Confederate descendants but not restricted to either them, or to white Southerners in general. But I think we will be disagreeing on that one too, huh?

What
the flag symbolizes for blacks is enough reason to take it down. See the links I provided above for why you don't speak for all Black Southerners and Americans. But
there’s another reason that white southernersSoutherners (remember to capitalize) shouldn’t fly it. Or sport
it on our state-issued license plates as some do here in North
Carolina. (Well Mr. former Mini Kleagle, go ahead and "enlighten" us with your newfound knowledge) The Confederacy – and the slavery that spawned it – was also
one big con job on the Southern, white, working class. A con job funded
by some of the ante-bellumantebellum (dude, you really need to learn to use spellcheck) one-per-centers, one-percenters (Oh dude, this spelling....) that continues today in a
similar form.

And so begins what will be a long and tedious combination of badly presented Southern history from a false narrative POV mixed in with modern regressive Leftist dogma. I don't know about y'all, but I'm starting to feel the nausea kick in.

You don’t have to be an economist to see that
forcing blacks – a third of the South’s laborers – to work without pay
drove down wages for everyone else. And not just in agriculture. A
quarter of enslaved blacks worked in the construction, manufacturing and
lumbering trades; cutting wages even for skilled white workers. I believe that goes without saying and would be considered somewhat accurate at least. Indeed it was one of the principle arguments against slavery, that it diminished the idea of honest labor.

Thanks
to the profitability of this no-wage/low-wage combination, a majority
of American one-per-centersone-percenters were southernersSoutherners. Slavery made southern
statesSouthern States the richest in the country. The South was richer than any other
country except England. But that vast wealth was invisible outside the
plantation ballrooms. With low wages and few schools, southernSouthern whites
suffered a much lower land ownership rate and a far lower literacy rate
than northernNorthern whites. My Lord, this terrible spelling. I mean I am no grammar Nazi, but seriously....

My ancestor Canna Hyman and his two sons did
own land and fought under that flag. I honor and thank them for their service, even as I think their descendant is a horses ass. A note from our family history
says: “Someone came for them while they were plowing one day. They put
their horses up and all three went away to the War and only one son,
William, came back.” I have similar stories in my family history, including how members of my own clan (that's family clan with a C, not the one your family was in buddy) were brutally murdered in cold blood by Southern Unionists.

Like Canna, most Southerners didn’t own
slaves. But they were persuaded to risk their lives and limbs for the
right of a few to get rich as Croesus from slavery. Trying to impress us with your knowledge of Greek history there? I'd be more impressed if you could spell and use hyphens correctly. For their sacrifices
and their votes, they earned two things before and after the Civil War.
First, a very skinny slice of the immense Southern pie. To use Marxist terminology you might get: after the War the bourgeoisie in the South were largely in the same boat as the proletariat, and newly freed slaves....namely up shit creek with no paddle in a land under Federal occupation. And second, the
thing that made those slim rations palatable then and now: the shallow
satisfaction of knowing that blacks had no slice at all. Wow, you have just thrown out every false narrative thought up by the regressive Left on this issue. I don't think you are qualified at all to determine what those soldiers felt coming home from that ugly War, nor what they considered satisfying in any meaningful way. I think they were just happy to be back with their families and loved ones same as any other citizen soldier who volunteered, or was drafted to war.

How did the plantation owners mislead so many Southern whites? You mean the ones whose own sons went out, endured the same hell of war along with the poor Southerners -- and not just white ones I might add -- in the same trenches, on the same bloody battleground, and dying together in the same field hospitals?

They
managed this con job partly with a propaganda technique that will be
familiar to modern Americans, but hasn’t received the coverage it
deserves in our sesquicentennial celebrations. Here it is folks. This is where the modern-day political bullshit comes into play. I need those nausea pills now. Starting in the 1840s
wealthy Southerners supported more than 30 regional pro-slavery
magazines, many pamphlets, newspapers and novels that falsely touted
slave ownership as having benefits that would – in today’s lingo –
trickle down to benefit non-slave owning whites and even blacks. The
flip side of the coin of this old-is-new trickle-down propaganda is the
mistaken notion that any gain by blacks in wages, schools or health care
comes at the expense of the white working class. (Sighs. Oy Vey!)

Today’s version
of this con job no longer supports slavery, but still works in the South
and thrives in pro trickle-down think tanks, magazines, newspapers,
talk radio and TV news shows such as the Cato Foundation, Reason
magazine, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. These sources are underwritten by
pro trickle-down one-per-centers like the Koch brothers and Rupert
Murdoch. Oh wow, so now Right wing and alternative media are the new "slaveowners" is it? Folks, are any of y'all actually fighting back a major fart right now also?

For example, a map of states that didn’t expand Medicaid –
which would actually be a boon mostly to poor whites – resembles a map
of the old Confederacy with a few other poor, rural states thrown in.
Another indication that this divisive propaganda works on Southern
whites came in 2012. Romney and Obama evenly split the white working
class in the West, Midwest and Northeast. But in the South we went 2-1
for Romney.

My brain and sense of common sense just felt like it was put through a blender. I mean seriously dude?

Lowering the flag because of the harm done to blacks
is the right thing to do. Uh,
no. It was acceptance of a wrong-thinking, pro-white supremacist viewpoint -- you know like the one you embraced as a child -- and
perpetuated that same view at the expense of those Black Southerners and
others who wrongly fear the display of that flag. We also need to lower it because it symbolizes
material harm the ideology of the Confederacy did to Southern whites
that lasts even to this day. No, it symbolizes a part of a vast living Southern heritage we all share as a united Southern people. The only material harm caused by its display today is when "tolerant" regressive snowflakes attack people who display it and have them fired from their jobs, or ruin their business interests through the fascism of political correctness.

One can love the South without flying
the battle flag. Of course you can, but you cannot attack those who display the flag honorably without racial intent and call yourself a good Southerner, or for that matter a person of good conscience. But it won’t help to get rid of an old symbol if we
can’t also rid ourselves of the self-destructive beliefs that go with
it. Only by shedding those too, will Southern whites finally catch up to
the rest of the country in wages, health and education. Translation: conform to the ideals of the dying Leftist group-think and we will let the rest of you in the secret club. Wow fella, you haven't fallen very far from your Klan uncle....you simply serve a different set of radical psychopaths. Given the current state of Leftist idealism in America in 2017, good luck with that, fignuts.

Finally this assault on Southern-Confederate heritage and common sense as a whole comes to a merciful end.

Southerners like Mr. Hyman are to be pitied. By his own words he admitted to growing up with less-than-ideal role models and examples of manhood to live up to. Worse for him he was taught to hate and, even in rebelling against that ideology, managed to find a way to transfer his own personal insecurities and person sense of guilt -- either justified or imagined -- into his newfound worldview.

The fact that he chooses to continue to embrace the very same view of the Dixie Cross flag as his own white supremacist uncle and family is bad enough; that he chooses to virtue signal his Leftist regressive worldview while continuing to promote said view of the flag and the memory of the Confederate soldier again shows that there is very little difference morally between white supremacist throwbacks and Leftist ideologues.

For providing a good example of this and my ability to respond point-by-point to refute it entirely, Mr. Hyman has my thanks for that....and nothing else.

Once again I hope you enjoyed my responses. Please feel free to add to the conversation below in the comments. Y'all have a wonderful day.

Another CNN poll conducted in 2015 between June 26-28 also reported that only 33% of Americans as a whole support the white supremacist view of the flag as a symbol of hate and racism, while 57% rejected that view in favor of the flag being a symbol of Southern pride and heritage.

Occam, the fact that African-Americans in general support a pro-racist viewpoint (aside from being an exercise in irony to the tenth degree) in no way legitimizes said viewpoint. To state it bluntly: they are wrong to view it that way.

That being said while I understand why they would, I have no sympathy for those who fail to look past their prejudices and who label others wrongly as racists. The information is out there, and those of us who honor that flag for all the right reasons have reached across the isle time and time again -- and we will continue to do so because it is the right thing.

Your poll also shows that there are at least one-in-four African Americans who reject that view and have grown beyond misguided fears and stereotypes. Indeed, I would point out that the 75% who disambiguously view is as a symbol of "Southern heritage and racism" (a neat way to phrase it, bravo to the Fake News industry's propaganda department) at least admit that it is a symbol of Southern heritage, even if their concept of what that means is different from the rest of the world's perception.

I thank you for your post sir (I presume sir because of the aftershave part, lol) and hope that you enjoyed this and other posts here on my humble little blog.

Author of several short science-fiction/fantasy stories and celebrated fanfiction author for various cartoon series and science fiction series, Mr. Roden has written over 40 stories under various pseudonyms; best noted for writing the award-winning Hey Arnold! fanfiction story:Arnold's Couch Confessionsin 2003.

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